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b"In southern France, on the West Bank of the Rhone river, sits the picturesque village of Pont-Saint-Esprit. The village itself looks exactly like what you might expect; Stone buildings with colorful shutters covering their windows sit beneath the clock tower of 15th century church.\\xa0 The village looks sleepy today, it probably is, and it probably has been throughout the majority of its history. In August 1951 though, over 250 residents of Pont-Saint-Esprit unexpectedly started tripping balls.\\xa0 Husbands and wives chased each other with knives, people screamed in terror and ran from flames that did not exist, a mother howled in grief believing that her children had been ground into sausages. By the events conclusion, more than 250 people would suffer from hallucinatory visions, 50 would be institutionalized, and 7 would lose their lives.\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nFor decades, the incident at Pont-Saint-Esprit would be blamed on bread tainted with a particular fungus and responsibility for the occurrence was placed on the shoulders of the village's bread bakers.\\xa0 In fact, in France, the incident is still known as Le Pain Maudit, \\u201cThe Cursed Bread\\u201d. But is tainted bread really the culprit here? Is it just a coincidence that this all happened amid the CIA\\u2019s stint of interest in LSD experimentation?\\n\\xa0\\nhttps://whereistheline.net/\\nhttps://www.patreon.com/whereistheline\\nhttps://www.facebook.com/whereisthelinepodcast/\\nhttps://www.instagram.com/whereisthelinepodcast/"